Stylebook

Hi everyone!
Today I want to introduce you to an app that I am really loving for organising and planning what I'm going to wear. It's called Stylebook and it can be found here:
Basically I have all my clothes in my Stylebook. It's like a catalogue of my wardrobe on my iPad. I can plan outfits weeks in advance, put together clothes to take on holiday, see what I have in colour groups, see different ways I've worn a particular item at a glance, and see clothing stats like cost per wear, how often I've worn something, which items are most and least worn, and most cringeworthy, how many items I have and how much my entire wardrobe is worth!
You do have some work upfront in cataloguing your clothes, granted. I tend to look up the item online when I buy something as I don't have a fancy camera to take a picture. Then you edit to to remove the background. The end result looks like a polyvore set. See one I made earlier.

You can organise your outfits any way that you want. I have mine in day/work/evening and in those subsets for seasons.

As you can see I have a lot of work to do with planning my spring and summer wardrobe.
This is the ultimate in geekery I suppose. But my OCD nature thoroughly enjoys it. And it makes getting dressed in the morning so easy. No more agonising and never having anything to wear. I can also view my most worn outfits if I want something tried and tested. I can make notes on an outfit as well. If I fancy wearing something I've not worn in a while I can pick out items that are rarely worn and plan new ways to wear them. I feel that I am making much better use of my existing clothes and as a result I am spending less!
Awesome.

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autumn 2013 work capsule wardrobe

i started this blog with the intention of documenting the creation of a mix and match wardrobe, all of which fitted me well, and would have plenty of outfits suitable for work, casual, and special occasions.

i started pretty much from scratch as after having 3 babies my wardrobe was full of stuff that didn't fit me properly and you know how bodies change after having a baby even if you are the same weight - things just don't go back in quite the same way as they were before. so, a change was overdue.

i have discovered that i really like the idea of having a capsule wardrobe. that doesn't mean that i only have a tiny amount of items but to me, means that my wardrobe isn't overflowing, that most of my stuff will go with other stuff, and that i don't have items in there that never get worn. if something isn't working - i purge it. i'm not completely done yet, but am a good way there!

of course, it isn't feasible to have a wardrobe where every single item will work with everything else and that would feel quite limiting. so, what i do is have loose capsules, i group them in my head for workwear and casualwear and then i have others for different colour schemes etc.

so this is what i came up with for a workwear capsule for autumn/winter. i kept an overall colour scheme of black, white and tan as neutrals with colours of coral, pink and burgundy.

from these 9 items i can make the following basic outfits:

1. black trousers + coral top

2. black trousers + black and white spotty shirt

3. black trousers + white wrap top

4. black trousers + black and white stripy top 

5. black trousers + terracotta long sleeved tee 

6. black skirt + coral top

7. black skirt + black and white spotty shirt

8. black skirt + white wrap top

9. black skirt + black and white stripy top

10. black skirt + terracotta long sleeved tee

11. berry pencil skirt + coral top

12. berry pencil skirt + black and white spotty shirt

13. berry pencil skirt + white wrap top

14. berry pencil skirt + black and white stripy top

15. berry pencil skirt + terracotta long sleeved tee

16. leopard dress

17. leopard dress + coral top

18. leopard dress + black and white spotty shirt

19. leopard dress + white wrap top

20. leopard dress + black and white stripy top

21. leopard dress + terracotta long sleeved tee

22. leopard dress + pencil skirt

23. leopard dress + black skirt

of course you would need to be cool with some pattern mixing with the dress and tops. but i think they should all work together nicely as they are all in the same cohesive colour scheme.

then you add in 2 toppers and accessories - i chose a pleather bomber jacket and a smart heather jacket, two contrasting scarves, a black belt, and a gold necklace.

once you factor in all the different looks you can create using these accessories on top of the basic capsule, you can end up with over a month's worth of different looks without repeating any!

black trousers - ebay

black skirt - dorothy perkins

berry pencil skirt - next

coral blouse - next

spotty shirt - marks + spencer

white wrap top - pepperberry

black and white stripy top - next

terracotta long sleeved tee - next

leopard dress - dorothy perkins

monochrome and leopard scarves - next

berry necklace - next

black ankleboots - next

tan riding boots - DUO

pleather bomber - new look

heather jacket - next